President Trump
regularly blocks people from following him on his @realDonaldTrump
Twitter feed. Who can blame him when insufferable
hags like Holly O’Reilly (@AynRandPaulRyan)
post vitriol like this:
YOU ARE THE LEAKER you moron.— Holly O'Reilly (@AynRandPaulRyan) May 16, 2017
Shut your giant piehole and maybe we'll live to see another president.#MorningJoe pic.twitter.com/Nhvf7vIHdm
Or this:
And now, for a series I like to call, "The Trumps go abroad." pic.twitter.com/mzGUNg051c— Holly O'Reilly (@AynRandPaulRyan) June 1, 2017
Or this:
— Holly O'Reilly (@AynRandPaulRyan) May 28, 2017
O’Reilly bitched and
moaned about being blocked and in jumped Knight First Amendment Institute at
Columbia University demanding, via a sternly worded letter, he unblock her and
any other accounts he may have blocked and if he doesn’t they will sue the
pants off him.
Jameel Jaffer,
Executive Director declared, “Though the architects of the Constitution surely
didn’t contemplate presidential Twitter accounts, they understood that the
president must not be allowed to banish views from public discourse simply
because he finds them objectionable. Having
opened this forum to all comers, the president can’t exclude people from it
merely because he dislikes what they’re saying.”
But not all First
Amendment scholars are convinced the Institute would have a strong case in
court.
“The question of whether
the President’s Twitter feed is a public forum is a more complicated question,”
says Neil Richards, a professor at Washington University’s Law school,
specializing in First Amendment theory. “The law here is famously muddled,
because it’s trying to prevent the government from discriminating against
people who speak on public streets and parks, but it’s trying to fight the urge
to make everything a public forum.”
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